2021届高考英语读后续写专题（九）

2021高考英语读后续写专题（九） 一：典题技法指导 When Grandpa was a young man, there’d been herds of livestock spread across the mountain. By the time I was born there was a whole herd of wild horses on the mountain. But wild horses don’t yield easily. My brother Shawn and I would spend days, even weeks, earning the horse’s trust. Then we would stroke(轻抚) its long face and gradually, over more weeks, work our hands around its wide neck and down its muscular body. After a month of this we’d bring out the saddle(马鞍), and the horse would toss its head suddenly and with such violence that the halter(缰绳) would snap or the rope break. I was thrown from dozens of these horses as they bucked(弓背四蹄跳跃), reared, rolled or leapt. I hit the dirt in a hundred sprawling postures, each time righting myself in an instant and skittering to the safety of a tree, tractor or fence, in case the horse was feeling vengeful. We never triumphed; our strength of will faltered long before theirs. Their natures hadn’t changed. They were